Western educations are failing due to infiltration by leftists. They're dumbing everything down so "nobody gets left behind", to cater to the lowest common denominator and those who barely speak the language of the country they're in.
It wasn't until the last few years that I understood insidiousness of that ideology and how contrary it is to traditional Western standards of excellence. The same standards leftists hate because they represent Whiteness and Colonialism. Collectivists and leftists will try to lift everyone up (or in practice bring everyone down) to the same level. American exceptionalism was founded on giving individuals the opportunity to succeed on their own merits. It's Social Darwinism in action - a form of gatekeeping where only the strongest survive. The competition and a chance at failure is what drives us to be better, not cooperation and spreading the wealth around. The harder we have to work at it, the more future generations will benefit, not only in material wealth but in the cultural norms required to build and sustain that.
It is exactly why academia has been failing. I'm not saying that nobody is ever unfairly kept out or that they don't deserve a shot somewhere where they are capable of proving their worth, but if liberal academics think there is a problem with systemic discrimination holding classes of people back, they need to start at the bottom instead of weakening standards at the top. I don't care that 19yo Tyrone can't make it into college. If you want to find out why 2nd grade Tyrone never learned to read, that may be worth investigating. Maybe he was failed or maybe he's a loser, but you don't break the system to make up for problems of minorities.
In other words, schooling is meant to be a series of gatekeeping challenges. As students rise through the system, the gates get narrower to ensure that only the best students come out at the end. As a result the system becomes stronger. If you simply open the gates, you don't help anyone. You destroy the system. And that of course has always been the goal for many of the subversives in academia.
The problem is, we know why Tyrone never learned to read: he has a single mother who doesn't give a fuck about him. But even speaking of that particular plague is modern day blasphemy and will get you excommunicated or worse.
If a child has zero support at home, there is anything anyone can do to help him short of forced rehoming, and I doubt anyone here wants to open that box. The parent is the foundation upon which a child grows. Without it, you can give him all the taxpayer money and legs up in the world and he's still going to wither on the vine 99% of the time.
If there is a solution, it won't apply to anyone currently alive. They are ruined forever, and lucky us, we get to live with and subsidize them.
Well, you have the dichotomy of self-styled "evolutionists" actually believing "all Men are created equal", and they'd argue if you told them they thus believe in creationist nonsense, not biology.
Now, when I was in high school in Ontario, they had a "streaming" system, in which a student had the option to choose what level of difficulty they could pick for most courses - basic, standard, or advanced. Advanced courses were mostly for kids aiming for university, but was also good for anyone who wanted more detail in a subject/more challenge, while basic was basically just for getting your credit. Some courses only had one level, but those were usually the wholly-optional stuff (like World Religions for a history credit.) No matter what you chose, you weren't necessarily stuck at that difficulty, either. If it was too easy, you could move up, or move down if you found yourself struggling. But they did away with that, because of some fictional "stigma" some faggots imagined the Basic credit kids might have, so they did away with it around 1986 (they changed everything about a year after I left.) I heard they were thinking of doing it again, because gee, the stupid kids can't keep up with a one-sized-fits-all cirriculum. Of course, this was at about the time that the whole work force was being rejiggered for to want courses for this and tickets for that, and to generally jump through flaming faggoty hoops for even the simplest, most basic min-wage jobs.
Part of it is also that schools both cannot and will not hold kids back, so they just get passed along without learning anything. You shouldn’t be able to leave a school until you show competence at grade level schools- if you wind up a 26 year old in 9th grade then don’t be dumb.
Part of it is also the underlying foundation of western civ is crumbling. These dumbed down standards aren't to ensure the bottom 10% graduates, but rather to avoid 80% failure rates.
Western educations are failing due to infiltration by leftists. They're dumbing everything down so "nobody gets left behind", to cater to the lowest common denominator and those who barely speak the language of the country they're in.
It wasn't until the last few years that I understood insidiousness of that ideology and how contrary it is to traditional Western standards of excellence. The same standards leftists hate because they represent Whiteness and Colonialism. Collectivists and leftists will try to lift everyone up (or in practice bring everyone down) to the same level. American exceptionalism was founded on giving individuals the opportunity to succeed on their own merits. It's Social Darwinism in action - a form of gatekeeping where only the strongest survive. The competition and a chance at failure is what drives us to be better, not cooperation and spreading the wealth around. The harder we have to work at it, the more future generations will benefit, not only in material wealth but in the cultural norms required to build and sustain that.
It is exactly why academia has been failing. I'm not saying that nobody is ever unfairly kept out or that they don't deserve a shot somewhere where they are capable of proving their worth, but if liberal academics think there is a problem with systemic discrimination holding classes of people back, they need to start at the bottom instead of weakening standards at the top. I don't care that 19yo Tyrone can't make it into college. If you want to find out why 2nd grade Tyrone never learned to read, that may be worth investigating. Maybe he was failed or maybe he's a loser, but you don't break the system to make up for problems of minorities.
In other words, schooling is meant to be a series of gatekeeping challenges. As students rise through the system, the gates get narrower to ensure that only the best students come out at the end. As a result the system becomes stronger. If you simply open the gates, you don't help anyone. You destroy the system. And that of course has always been the goal for many of the subversives in academia.
The problem is, we know why Tyrone never learned to read: he has a single mother who doesn't give a fuck about him. But even speaking of that particular plague is modern day blasphemy and will get you excommunicated or worse.
If a child has zero support at home, there is anything anyone can do to help him short of forced rehoming, and I doubt anyone here wants to open that box. The parent is the foundation upon which a child grows. Without it, you can give him all the taxpayer money and legs up in the world and he's still going to wither on the vine 99% of the time.
If there is a solution, it won't apply to anyone currently alive. They are ruined forever, and lucky us, we get to live with and subsidize them.
And a peer group that reveres criminals while it sneers at education.
Might help if we actually had male role models in the schools for boys like that...
Well, you have the dichotomy of self-styled "evolutionists" actually believing "all Men are created equal", and they'd argue if you told them they thus believe in creationist nonsense, not biology.
Now, when I was in high school in Ontario, they had a "streaming" system, in which a student had the option to choose what level of difficulty they could pick for most courses - basic, standard, or advanced. Advanced courses were mostly for kids aiming for university, but was also good for anyone who wanted more detail in a subject/more challenge, while basic was basically just for getting your credit. Some courses only had one level, but those were usually the wholly-optional stuff (like World Religions for a history credit.) No matter what you chose, you weren't necessarily stuck at that difficulty, either. If it was too easy, you could move up, or move down if you found yourself struggling. But they did away with that, because of some fictional "stigma" some faggots imagined the Basic credit kids might have, so they did away with it around 1986 (they changed everything about a year after I left.) I heard they were thinking of doing it again, because gee, the stupid kids can't keep up with a one-sized-fits-all cirriculum. Of course, this was at about the time that the whole work force was being rejiggered for to want courses for this and tickets for that, and to generally jump through flaming faggoty hoops for even the simplest, most basic min-wage jobs.
Part of it is also that schools both cannot and will not hold kids back, so they just get passed along without learning anything. You shouldn’t be able to leave a school until you show competence at grade level schools- if you wind up a 26 year old in 9th grade then don’t be dumb.
Part of it is also the underlying foundation of western civ is crumbling. These dumbed down standards aren't to ensure the bottom 10% graduates, but rather to avoid 80% failure rates.